Gateways Radio, a collaboration between WFMT Radio Network and WXXI-FM in Rochester, NY, celebrates the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, a 125+ member ensemble of African-descendant musicians. The festival's mission is to connect and support classical musicians of African descent, inspiring communities underrepresented in classical music. The debut radio season features works by various composers and performers, including pianists, saxophonists, clarinetists, and the Gateways Orchestra.

Oct 6:
Gabriela Lena FRANK: Coqueteos
James V. COCKERHAM: Fantasia on Lift Every Voice and Sing
Gernot WOLFGANG: Common Ground
Scott JOPLIN: Cascades
William Grant STILL: Symphony No. 1, Afro-American

Oct 13:
BUSKAID: Sunrise
Florence PRICE: Piano Sonata
TRADITIONAL: Let My People Go
William Levi DAWSON: Negro Folk Symphony

Oct 20:
Claude DEBUSSY: Arabesque No. 1
Michael ABELS: Dance for Martin’s Dream
David BAKER: Saxophone Concerto
James LEE III: A Narrow Pathway Traveled
Coleridge-Taylor PERKINSON: Worship

Oct 27:
J.S. BACH: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring; Cello Suite No. 1, movements 1-2; Cello Suite No. 1, movements 3-4; Cello Suite No. 1, movements 5-6
Jessie MONTGOMERY: Banner
Howard SWANSON: The Cuckoo
TRADITIONAL: There is a Balm in Gilead; When Asked Wherein My Hope Lies; Amazing Grace
Coleridge-Taylor PERKINSON: Lamentations, movement 4